The Senate has just voted to end debate on a bill that would lift the ban on gays serving openly in the military, essentially clearing the measure for passage and signature by the president.

Lawmakers voted 63 to 33 to end debate on the current policy, put in place by former president Bill Clinton, informally known as "don't ask don't tell."

The Senate could vote on final passage of the measure as early as today but it will most likely happen on Sunday or Monday.

"We are on the verge of ending 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' for good," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said after the vote "This is one of those moments in our history when we stepped up and squared our policies with the values this nation was founded upon."

any assholes who supported this have been traitors and upheld the commie manifesto to any who say this is not big deal then get your head out of your ass as this now means they can say they can die for their country but cannot marry therefore they should be overturning DOMA, then it is the law recognized by the feds therefore teach it in schools and then make Revs etc marry them otherwise they are hate crimes

I will donate all my money now to any traitor to the military voted for this in the GOP

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posted on 12/18/2010 9:40:58 AM PST
by manc
(FOX and the media never talk about the queer private who stole all the secrets do they? mmmmmm)

any assholes who supported this have been traitors and upheld the commie manifesto to any who say this is not big deal then get your head out of your ass as this now means they can say they can die for their country but cannot marry therefore they should be overturning DOMA, then it is the law recognized by the feds therefore teach it in schools and then make Revs etc marry them otherwise they are hate crimes

I will donate all my money now to any traitor to the military voted for this in the GOP

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posted on 12/18/2010 9:42:11 AM PST
by manc
(FOX and the media never talk about the queer private who stole all the secrets do they? mmmmmm)

"We are on the verge of ending 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' for good," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said after the vote "This is one of those moments in our history when we stepped up and squared our policies with the values this nation was founded upon."

First, DADT is not dead. The Congress can come back and address it next year.

Second, sorry Dingy, our precious country was not founded on queers and fagots.

I suspect ending DADT will have a profoundly negative affect on our military.

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posted on 12/18/2010 9:44:40 AM PST
by upchuck
(When excerpting please use the entire 300 words we are allowed. No more one or two sentence posts!)

"Without this I would not be voting to repeal this," Webb said, holding up the report.

To start off with, we need a list of Republicans who voted for this. They all have to go.

Then we go after the Blue Dog Democrats, who pretend to be so very moral--except when they vote.

Then I now think it's confirmed that we have to get rid of the Senate leaders. They are failing in their leadership duties again, unless they told all the RINOs who voted for this that they would lose all their committee appointments. He's never done that before, so I seriously doubt whether he did it this time, either. I presume that means John Kyl, among others.

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